Geeze! What's Next DNA samples to enter the park?

[Moonliner]

I ran across a news article today. It looks like WDW is now requiring everyone entering the park to submit to a fingerprint scan. Now how wrong is that?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Technically, not a fingerprint scan. It measures the shape and size of certain features of your finger, it doesn't actually check your fingerprint.

Not that it matters, but for accuracy's sake...

[Moonliner]

Thanks as always for that clarification.


And remember kids, if you think this type of hooey is, well hooey then keep your cards and letters coming!

[DisneyDaniel]

Similarly, SeaWorld San Diego started requiring annual passport holders to scan their entire palm each visit for more than a year now. A mechanism at each entrance turnstile scans the shape and formation of your palm. It's rather inconvenient, but this is also the same place where the annual passport is printed on cardstock, just like the regular one-day ticket. A "water"-themed park where you can and do get wet in several shows and rides should print annual passports on plastic, but I guess they can save more money this way.

[scaeagles]

Can I ask what the problem is with that? I really don't understand....perhaps I am being ignorant. What's the difference between that and presenting an AP with your picture? Or showing a drivers license as ID? Or using a PIN number at an ATM? All it is is a method of identification required by a private enterprise and it is much more fraud proof than any other method.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Can I ask what the problem is with that? I really don't understand....perhaps I am being ignorant. What's the difference between that and presenting an AP with your picture? Or showing a drivers license as ID? Or using a PIN number at an ATM? All it is is a method of identification required by a private enterprise and it is much more fraud proof than any other method.

So when exactly does the insatiable desire for corporate collection of personal data become too much for you? Hair Samples, Iris scans, Saliva for DNA, Urine Samples? What right does a corporation have to this type of intrusion?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So when exactly does the insatiable desire for corporate collection of personal data become too much for you? Hair Samples, Iris scans, Saliva for DNA, Urine Samples? What right does a corporation have to this type of intrusion?

Well, I suppose, being a private enterprise, they have the right to ask for whatever they want. Just as they can ask for it, I can refuse and not accept their services. You are not harmed in anyway. It is a choice. Protest it all you want, and maybe it will make a difference and they will change their policy.

Now, I am not one for intrusion, but bio-identification (or whatever the proper term is) is here to stay and will only spread. I fail to see how the info could be used against me unless it was misidentified to another person. The security of this type of data does scare me in the world of ID theft.

[Name]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So when exactly does the insatiable desire for corporate collection of personal data become too much for you? Hair Samples, Iris scans, Saliva for DNA, Urine Samples?

For me it will be stool samples

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Why do they need to do this for day guests?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Why do they need to do this for day guests?

To prevent transfering of multi-day tickets and people getting around re-entry handstamps. "Gee, I just washed my hands after lunch."